King of Thorn
6.3
A mysterious virus, nicknamed Medusa, is spreading around Japan, turning its victims into stone. Given the impossibility of finding an immediate cure, the government opts for cryopreserving a select group of patients until they come up with a solution. Kasumi, one of the chosen ones, has been asleep for years and her awakening, more than a bed of roses, is a bed of thorns, and happens in the midst of total chaos where monstrous creatures lie in wait all around.
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Cast
11 people
Kana Hanazawa
Kasumi Ishiki (voice)
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Kohsei Hirota
Alexandro Pecchino (voice)
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Misaki Kuno
Alice (voice)
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Tsutomu Isobe
Ivan Coral Vega (voice)
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Black Lagoon
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Sayaka Ohara
Katherine Turner (voice)
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Fairy Tail
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Ayako Kawasumi
Laura Owen (voice)
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Assassination Classroom
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Toshiyuki Morikawa
Marco Owen (voice)
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Naruto Shippūden
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Shin'ichirou Miki
Peter Stevens (voice)
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Dragon Ball Super
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Eri Sendai
Shizuku Ishiki (voice)
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The Future Diary
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Akiko Yajima
Timothy Laisenbach (voice) / Walter (voice)
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InuYasha
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Kenji Nomura
Ron Portman (voice)
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BNA
Kazuyoshi Katayama Director · Hiroshi Yamaguchi Screenplay Yuji Iwahara Story
First release May 1, 2010 · Produced in Japan · Production Bandai Visual, SUNRISE
Production
KADOKAWA
Production
Bandai Visual
Production
SUNRISE
Production
Enterbrain
Production
TV Tokyo
Production
dentsu
Production
Sony PCL
Production
Kadokawa Pictures
Production
Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
いばらの王 -King of Thorn-
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · May 1, 2010
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Australia
December 5, 2012 · Physical · DVD
October 20, 2020 · Digital · Crunchyroll
Canada
July 24, 2010 · Premiere · Fantasia International Film Festival
Germany
November 27, 2010 · Theatrical
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